Stress, anxiety and sleep

Insomnia takes three forms: difficulty falling asleep, fragmented sleep with intense dreams, or waking at night and being unable to return to sleep. According to TCM, insomnia is connected to emotional state — anxiety depletes Spleen blood and disrupts sleep. Long-term stress can affect digestion, breathing, pain and sleep. Treatments: acupuncture, ear acupuncture, electro-acupuncture.